Santo Domingo.-Some 90 attempts at fires 50 agricultural or controlled burnings, known as conuquismo, were registered in the month of February of this year, involving 33 people who were brought before the courts, 21 of them Haitian nationals.
The information was provided by the National Environmental Protection Service (SENPA), headed by the ship’s captain, René Rodríguez Álvarez, who explained that forest fires refer to those that get out of control and exceed 50 hectares.
He said that the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources carried out 3,189 operations in which 252 people were arrested, 175 of them subjected to legal action for committing different environmental crimes.
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The conferences held in February of this year include protection of forest resources, water and soil, environmental management, protected areas, related to fauna and coastal and marine resources, such as the confiscation of 17,244 pounds of parrotfish that is under ban. .
“Some 96 vehicles were retained, it is reiterated that the same areas with the same type of complaint, East Zone we maintain the lookouts and alerts especially with the alerts by citizens since now they are closed since we have received several complaints through of the Green Line”, explained Rodríguez Álvarez.
Regarding the province of San Cristóbal, Rodríguez Álvarez reported that 42 soldiers from SENPA, the Quiet City Joint Task Force (FT-CIUTRAN) (FT-CIUTRAN) and the Joint Metropolitan Command (COCOM) are stationed every day. “For two months, permanent surveillance has been maintained in the area.”
